A remark on the Beckman/Quarles theorem

DOI10.1016/S0012-365X(96)00331-7MaRDI QIDQ1377798zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Herbert Hotje

Publication date 26 January 1998

Published in Discrete Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S0012-365X(96)00331-7

zbMATH Keywords

\(k\)-homometryarchimedean planeBeckman-Quarles theoremisometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Congruence and orthogonality in metric geometry (51F20) Euclidean geometries (general) and generalizations (51M05) Geometric constructions in real or complex geometry (51M15)

Review text

The author studies the Beckman-Quarles theorem in euclidean planes. Combining a series of results of other geometers (also with reference to T. R. Dawson's ``match-stick geometry, which was recently popularized again in a chapter of G. E. Martin's new book about geometric constructions) he obtains the following Corollary: Let \(f\) be a bijection of a euclidean plane over an archimedean field that preserves a constant distance between points and lines. Then \(f\) is an isometry.

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